Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Berlin Metropolitan Area

• Finleap has built or invested in 15 ventures and developed more than 5 corporate JVs and service ventures collectively worth €3.0Bn+ at its peak.
• Took the lead in streamlining complexity by combining microservice and monolithic architectures, significantly improving the developer experience and boosting productivity.
• Led the transition to daily deployments, enhancing feedback mechanisms and enabling a faster product evolution cycle.
• Increased test code coverage across all services, elevating some from zero to 70% coverage.
• Implemented observability measures in the application by investing in monitoring capabilities.
• Defined and implemented SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for our services, aiming for a 2-second response time on p99 requests.
• Ensured support for a high availability of services, achieving a four 9s uptime.
• Invested in tooling to conduct performance tests, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in services using recently built dashboards, resulting in services achieving a p99 2-second response time.
• Organized tech debt sessions to address shortcuts made during the product feature delivery, resulting in a reduction in bugs and time to market.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area; Porto Alegre

• Collaborated on e-commerce project by implementing microservices architecture.
• E- nhanced system observability by implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing mechanisms, resulting in a significant reduction in bugs and improved system stability.
• Designed and executed a performance testing suite to identify and resolve bottlenecks across all microservices, resulting in cost savings by optimizing service usage and reducing the number of required resources.
• Implemented a contract-based solution to improve API functionality, enabling better communication and preventing the creation of APIs without prior agreement with consumers.
• Demonstrated exceptional scalability by successfully managing a surge in traffic during the high-demand period of Black Friday, effectively handling a peak load of 1,000 requests per second.
• Devised and implemented an efficient caching solution, reducing backend server utilization by 60%.
• Transformed the deployment process by transitioning from once-in-a-while deployments to a streamlined CI/CD workflow, enabling faster and more reliable releases.
• Executed a seamless migration of legacy microservices from an on-premises technology stack to cloud-based solutions, resulting in significant improvements in deployment time and success rate.
• Previously, deployments took approximately 1 hour with a failure rate of 1/3, whereas post-migration, deployments now complete within 10 minutes with no failures.
• Led the project, effectively managing a diverse team of 6 engineers located in India and the US.
• Facilitated successful cross-continental knowledge transfer (KT) sessions, sharing expertise with engineers from India, Brazil, and the US, ensuring a smooth project handover and continuous success.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Porto Alegre e Região, Brasil

• Developed and implemented new features for Vantage - a payroll product.
• Enhanced the codebase by significantly expanding test coverage through the implementation of robust unit tests.
• Collaborated seamlessly with a diverse cross-functional team of 10 professionals, including engineers, designers, and product managers.
• Triaged and resolved critical production bugs, ensuring seamless operation and enhancing the product's stability.